Regulating in a sentence as a noun

" every time they bite into a lamb kebob, and are regulating their food and drug industries.

"We called on governments to adopt more humane and effective ways of controlling and regulating *****.

Legalize it and then spend money and make laws regulating consumption, it would greatly reduce the misery in our corner of the world.

They need to make bowling more difficult again by regulating ball surface compounds more closely and making lane oil patterns more difficult.

They think in terms of patents regulating unfair business practices in the competition between Dow Chemical and DuPont or Lockheed and Raytheon.

Would you want government regulators to be nice to the industry people they are regulating because in the long run they benefit from having good relationship with industry leaders?

Ideally burnout is kind of self-regulating because as your productivity decreases your opportunities decrease as well.

Yet, almost every time some morally righteous politician talks about regulating the Internet, he or she mentions "Child Pornography".

"Earth and its ecosystems – created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting" - Roy Spencer

When the service is misused, however, others can be hurt: in YouTube's case, with persons posting and potentially profiting by infringing the copyrights of others; in Airbnb's, with persons attempting to circumvent laws regulating uses of commercial rental space.

Unfortunately, without legalizing and regulating prostitution worldwide, it's impossible to disambiguate between an autonomous sex worker and a human trafficking victim.

The current copyright law was written over the course of 200 years with the idea that it was regulating the commercial activities of publishing companies, and it's far, far too complex to expect ordinary people to understand, particularly in relation to their hobbies.

Interference patterns of periodic, coherent reaction-diffusion waves in cytoplasm and larger spatial scales could account for scale-free information patterns regulating biological systems including the brain.

In general, we think arguments that regulating the Internet is 'ancillary' to some other regulatory authority that the FCC has been granted just don’t have sufficient limitations to stop bad FCC behavior in the future and create the 'Trojan horse' risk we have long warned about.

The underlying principle here is that when you identify yourself as a government employee, you are in some sense speaking on behalf of the government, and as your employer the government has an interest in regulating the speech of its officers, not least to ensure an accurate reflection of its legal position.

Here is one of those oh-so-productive HN threads where virtually everyone is competing to find either cleverer or more emphatic ways of agreeing with the same statement; in this case, it's "the government shouldn't regulate encryption", but it might just as well be "the government shouldn't be electronically strip searching people at airports".This phenomenon presents a manifold of problems, including:* Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here" --- not by regulating encryption, but, for instance, perhaps by allocating funding and training differently.

Regulating definitions

noun

the act of controlling or directing according to rule; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians"

See also: regulation